Madcatz TE Dual Mod Part Deux

The ChImp circuit board arrived today and everything appeared to be in order.  It even came with a printout of the instructional PDF and a couple of stickers, which is pretty fun.  Just looking at those screw terminals makes me pretty happy.  The less soldering the better in my opinion.

First thing's first was the removal of the 360 pcb from the case, stripping out the usb cable and connecting those wires to the ChImp.  Next, I connected new wires from the 360 board to the ChImp board.  There was a little extra wire showing, so I went ahead and shielded them with electrical tape.

Then, for shi's and gi's, I connected a single Sanwa OBSF-30 to the ChImp board and connected it to my computer to give it a little test.  The computer recognized the board correctly and button triggered just fine.  I now had an uncased, single button controller.

I separated and stripped away a portion of each wire of the ribbon cable for the joystick and attached a wire to each direction so that the ChImp could piggyback the signal from it and connected those wires to the new board and plugged the ribbon cable back into the 360 board.  I then tested it to yet again, positive results.

Then I basically repeated the process to get each joystick direction to go to both boards for all 8 face buttons as well as the start and select buttons.  Now, with all the of the buttons and stick connected, I could again test all of them with my laptop in it's default PS3/PC configuration and then forced it into 360 mode and tested it there too.

The only thing left to do is solder a connection directly to the home button on the board so that we have a guide/home button as well. Oh and find a way to make this ridiculous spaghetti bowl a little neater before I close everything up and call it done.  Still easier than all the b.s. I had to do to make my Mayflash.